Ch 11: Voice Disorders

1. How voice disorders are classified:

1.1. Vocal Abuse

1.2. Vocal Nodules

2. Neurogenic Disorders

2.1. result from illness, damage, or disease

2.2. associated with voice production

2.3. Parkinson's Disease Tourette Syndrome/Vocal Tics

3. Alaryngeal Communication

4. Defining Characteristics of Voice Disorders:

4.1. Resonance-- velopharyngeal

4.2. Pitch and Loudness

4.3. Phonatory Quality

5. Treatments

5.1. for Vocal Abuse

5.2. for Psychogenic Disorders

5.3. for Alaryngeal Communication

5.4. for Neurogenic Disorders

6. phonation: adduction and abduction

7. Voice is complex, dynamic product of vocal chord vibration that allows us to vocalize.

8. Resonance

9. Frequency(pitch)

10. Psychogenic Disorders (nonorganic)

10.1. Linked to emotional and psychological characteristics

10.2. Triggers

10.3. Conversion Disorder